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Matching Polychrome Sets from Acatlán, Puebla

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Chris L. Moser
Chris L. Moser*
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University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Abstract

Previously published descriptions of pottery styles known from the Mixteca Baja, Acatlán, Puebla area have been concerned with describing and interpreting the relief designs on the interiors of polychrome grater bowls. Attention is directed here to the observation that there are actually two forms of slab-legged, tripod vessels from Acatlán which co-occur in sets. One form is a food preparation bowl or molcajete, and the other is a raised tripod serving vessel or dish that also functioned as a lid or cover to the molcajete. These matching sets were probably high-status burial offerings and may have been used in part of the burial ritual of preparing food for the dead.

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American Antiquity , Volume 34 , Issue 4 , October 1969, pp. 480 - 483
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1969

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